FC Nantes travels to Paris to face Paris-Saint-Germain in the semi-final of the Coupe de France on Wednesday April 3 (kick-off: 9 p.m.). Not the best after a home defeat on Sunday against Lille, the Canaries will face a PSG deprived of some of these star players.
PSG will have to do without its stars Neymar and Edinson Cavani, as well as Thomas Meunier and Angel Di Maria, also convalescing and “not available” their coach Thomas Tuchel said on Tuesday.
“Maybe Julian Draxler and Dani Alves can play”
against Nantes added the German technician during his point on the infirmary.
Injured against Strasbourg on January 23 in the Coupe de France, Neymar follows a conservative treatment which avoids him a second passage on the operating table in a year, for the same bone of the right foot. For their part, the people of Nantes carried out one last practice on tuesday at la Jonelière before heading for the capital. Nantes residents who remain on their disappointment with their defeat against Lille last weekend. Final score: 2/3 for Nantes after leading 2/0.Nantes have not reached the semi-finals of the Coupe de France since 2007and a feat against PSG would save a golden and already wasted 2018-2019 season (disappearance of Emilano Sala, soap opera of the new stadium, management of the club by President Kita contested by a good part of Nantes supporters)
Nantes coach Vahid Halilhodzic expects “boldness” and “confidence” from his players, for what he describes as “game of the year”.
